Sam Lowry writes: European institutions are tracking users of their web sites, in breach of the EU's own data protection rules. The fact has been confirmed by Europe’s data protection watchdog, in an interview with EurActiv, while Brussels is reviewing privacy legislation to tackle the abuse.

Sam Lowry writes: In a follow-up to the news on tightening rules for Internet users in Belarus, companies and entrepreneurs in Belarus are now required to host their websites in Belarus and to declare themselves to the state authorities. ISPs will have to keeps the user logs for 1 year.

The original poster has no clue what this really means. Having such a project funded by the FP7 Framework Programme is the only sure way to discredit the whole idea. Have you ever heard of an FP6 or FP7 funded project that produced anything useful?

I'd vote for desintegration if all belgians had cheaper and better internt from French and Dutch providers. Here in Belgium internet connectivity is double in price and one quarter in bandwidth of what they pay across the border.

There's a thing called Open Root Server Network that was supposed to be a fallback solution to US-backed root DNS servers. Unfortunately, it stopped operating last year and I wonder if CIA was involved in that.